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Faith, Grief, Journal, Living
September 20, 2019
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Love Notes From My Mother in Heaven

Twelve years have passed since my mother exclaimed, “I’ve died and gone to Heaven!” as she leaned back in her big donut-shaped tube and…

Grown Children, Kids, Teen
September 16, 2019
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Parents, We’ve Created “The Loneliest Generation”—Here’s What We Need To Do About it Now

This post originally appeared on the author’s Facebook page. Having had no fewer than 12 students (male and female) sob in my office in the…

Grief, Grown Children, Motherhood
September 7, 2019
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Dear Young Mom, I Wish I Was You Again

Dear young mama, First, let me apologize. I am guilty of saying “enjoy every minute” and “they’ll be grown before you know it”. I have…

Grief, Kids, Motherhood
August 27, 2019
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Let the Grandparents Spoil While They Still Can

Today my children visited their grandmother, or as we call her Memeré (French for Grandma). It wasn’t like most visits with a grandparent. This…

Grown Children, Kids, Motherhood
August 25, 2019
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To the Parents Saying Goodbye

I’m awake. It’s 4 a.m. Just 45 minutes ago, I heard the garage door open and close for the last time at this ungodly hour. I ran downstairs to…

Grown Children, Motherhood
August 18, 2019
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I’m a Grown-Boy Mom Now

I have an adult child. My oldest son walked across the stage a few months ago and received his high school diploma. I have practiced saying this to…

Grown Children, Motherhood
August 10, 2019
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Better Late Than Never: An Apology to My Mother

Dear Mom, I didn’t begin to understand the unrealistic impossible expectations I put on you. I would easily forgive Dad’s transgressions. He…

Grown Children, Motherhood, Teen
July 22, 2019
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I Just Left a Piece of My Heart in a College Dorm

I saw Hoda Kotb today in New York about to start her third hour of The Today Show. I waved through the glass and she waved back! It was raining, but…

Grief, Grown Children
July 19, 2019
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To My Dad Gone Too Soon: I Miss You

Dear Dad, Man, I miss you. It seems like just yesterday I was getting dressed up in my frilly dress to go on one of our infamous daddy-daughter…

Grown Children, Kids, Motherhood
July 15, 2019
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She’s My Mom, and She Did Her Best

It was a typical Thursday morning, but the gloomy clouds and drizzling rain poetically accompanied a nagging sadness that I tried to ignore as I went…

grown children

Love Notes From My Mother in Heaven

Parents, We’ve Created “The Loneliest Generation”—Here’s What We Need To Do About it Now

Dear Young Mom, I Wish I Was You Again

Let the Grandparents Spoil While They Still Can

To the Parents Saying Goodbye

I’m a Grown-Boy Mom Now

Better Late Than Never: An Apology to My Mother

I Just Left a Piece of My Heart in a College Dorm

To My Dad Gone Too Soon: I Miss You

She’s My Mom, and She Did Her Best

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